fix: clean up stale try handlers

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Summary

Prevent stale TryInfo entries from outliving their call frames or lexical try scopes. This closes the guest-triggered panic tracked in #58 and makes nested callback/generator throws reach the correct live guest handler.

Changes

• Centralize frame removal so handlers owned by popped frames are purged consistently.
• Restrict nested callback and generator executors to handlers above their entry frame boundary.
• Cancel continuation records only when abnormal unwinding removes their callback frames.
• Preserve active generator handlers across yield using private frame-relative state.
• Emit EndTry cleanup before break and continue leave lexical try scopes.
• Upgrade the PR fix: return an error instead of panicking when the frame stack empties #52 regressions from merely returning an error to reaching the intended guest catch blocks.
• Add regressions for stale handlers after returns, nested callbacks/classes, generator returns/throws/yields, nested async continuations, and ordinary/generator break/continue paths.

Test plan

• Focused error-handling suite passes (16 passed)
• Core test suite passes (cargo test -p zapcode-core)
• Security suite passes (65 passed, 1 pre-existing ignored test)
• Snapshot suite passes (10 passed)
• Strict lint passes (cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings)
• Formatting and diff checks pass
• CI passes

Related issues

Fixes #58

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved try/catch behavior across callbacks, class methods, generators, and asynchronous callbacks.
  • Prevented errors from escaping guest-level handlers unexpectedly.
  • Fixed cleanup of error handlers when using return, break, continue, or yield.
  • Improved generator suspension and resumption so active error-handling state is preserved correctly.
  • Added safeguards for invalid break and continue usage outside loops.

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Walkthrough

Changes

The compiler now tracks try-block depth and emits EndTry instructions for loop exits. The VM centralizes frame removal and error unwinding, including suspended generator handlers. Tests cover callbacks, generators, async callbacks, returns, and loop control flow.

Try-handler lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Compiler try-aware control flow crates/zapcode-core/src/compiler/mod.rs	The compiler records try depth at loop entry, updates depth while compiling try bodies, validates break and continue, and emits cleanup instructions before loop jumps.
VM frame and handler unwinding crates/zapcode-core/src/vm/mod.rs	The VM removes frame-owned handlers through centralized frame cleanup, restores valid catch state during errors, and saves and restores generator handlers across suspension and resumption.
Exception lifecycle regression coverage crates/zapcode-core/tests/error_handling.rs	Tests cover nested callbacks, class methods, generators, async callbacks, returns, yields, break, and continue within try blocks.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to d7522

This change improves stale exception-handler cleanup, but generator suspension and snapshot resume can bypass resource budgets and fail to preserve handler state, allowing hostile programs to increase denial-of-service pressure or route later throws incorrectly. These merge-readiness risks should be fixed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GuestCode
  participant Compiler
  participant VM
  participant CatchHandler
  GuestCode->>Compiler: compile try and loop control flow
  Compiler->>VM: emit try setup and cleanup instructions
  VM->>VM: remove or restore frame-owned handlers
  GuestCode->>VM: throw error
  VM->>CatchHandler: restore state and transfer to catch

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 58.62% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 29 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: cleanup of stale try handlers.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes all required sections, explains the fix, lists key changes, documents testing, and links issue #58. CI remains unchecked, but this is a non-critical incomplete item.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #58 by cleaning handlers during frame removal, restricting nested executor handler ranges, preserving valid generator state across yield, validating unwinding paths, and addi…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The compiler, VM, and error-handling tests are directly related to stale try-handler cleanup and the requirements of issue #58. No unrelated code changes are identified.

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Explanation

The changes address issue #58 by cleaning handlers during frame removal, restricting nested executor handler ranges, preserving valid generator state across yield, validating unwinding paths, and adding regressions for returns, callbacks, generators, and loop control.

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Benchmark Results

    Updating crates.io index
   Compiling zapcode-core v1.5.3 (/home/runner/work/zapcode/zapcode/crates/zapcode-core)
    Finished `bench` profile [optimized] target(s) in 17.40s
     Running unittests src/lib.rs (target/release/deps/zapcode_core-cb099e27b156e3cc)

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.00s

     Running benches/execution.rs (target/release/deps/execution-3f0fe26016ff4411)
Timer precision: 15 ns
execution                  fastest       │ slowest       │ median        │ mean          │ samples │ iters
├─ array_creation          2.58 µs       │ 52.84 µs      │ 2.794 µs      │ 3.441 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ async_map_3             9.009 µs      │ 61.66 µs      │ 9.482 µs      │ 10.6 µs       │ 100     │ 100
├─ fibonacci_10            124.7 µs      │ 145.3 µs      │ 126.2 µs      │ 128 µs        │ 100     │ 100
├─ function_call           4.34 µs       │ 10.31 µs      │ 4.603 µs      │ 4.672 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ loop_100                69.89 µs      │ 91.65 µs      │ 71.07 µs      │ 72.02 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ object_creation         5.039 µs      │ 13.23 µs      │ 5.37 µs       │ 5.496 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ promise_all_3           6.727 µs      │ 16.48 µs      │ 7.175 µs      │ 7.417 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ promise_catch_resolved  4.134 µs      │ 13.11 µs      │ 4.407 µs      │ 4.517 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ promise_resolve_await   2.929 µs      │ 9.65 µs       │ 3.082 µs      │ 3.195 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ promise_then_chain_3    8.743 µs      │ 19.04 µs      │ 9.16 µs       │ 9.501 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ promise_then_single     4.982 µs      │ 10.28 µs      │ 5.231 µs      │ 5.341 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ simple_expression       2.096 µs      │ 10.73 µs      │ 2.289 µs      │ 2.416 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ string_concat           2.496 µs      │ 6.694 µs      │ 2.716 µs      │ 2.775 µs      │ 100     │ 100
├─ template_literal        2.724 µs      │ 9.327 µs      │ 2.897 µs      │ 2.972 µs      │ 100     │ 100
╰─ variable_arithmetic     2.762 µs      │ 10.29 µs      │ 3.005 µs      │ 3.123 µs      │ 100     │ 100

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In `@crates/zapcode-core/src/vm/mod.rs`:
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[TheUncharted]

Follow-up to CodeRabbit's unresolved generator-handler allocation-accounting finding: verified and addressed in #62.

The follow-up:

• charges SetupTry before growing try_stack;
• preflights generator handler restore before mutating generator state;
• charges saved handlers, suspended stack slots, and handler-map entries before yield bookkeeping;
• makes memory/time/stack/allocation limit violations terminal so guest try/catch cannot continue from partial generator state;
• adds exact-boundary regressions, including the previously catchable restore failure at allocation budget 27.

Local validation passed: 19 error-handling tests, 12 generator tests, 65 active security tests, the full core suite, strict Clippy, formatting/diff checks, and independent security review.